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On Tuesday 3 January 2012, our executive team met with Michael Salazar, New gTLD Program Director, to review ICANN's readiness to open the application window for the new generic top-level domain program on Thursday, 12 January, as planned.

I have spent a lot of time on the road recently. My visits to 16 countries in three months were just one part of ICANN’s busy and successful international roadshows to raise awareness of new generic top-level domains.

Monday, 5 December marked the Request for Information (RFI) deadline that asked Emergency Back-End Registry Operator (EBERO) candidates to submit their proposals if they would like to be considered for the new gTLD EBERO Program. We received 14 RFIs from respondents in North America, South America, Asia and Europe and we plan to make the final selection of EBERO organizations in 2012.

Senator Jay Rockefeller's introductory statement at the U.S. Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation's hearing regarding ICANN's New gTLD Program on December 8, 2011 went right to the issue ...

People have a lot of opinions – positive, negative and everything in between – about new gTLDs. At ICANN, we believe that new gTLDs are a platform of innovation, but we can’t predict the future to tell you what kinds of new products and services might be developed.

That is the thing about innovation. It is notoriously hard to predict. Nobody knows what new gTLDs will bring.

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